When Your Parents Are Dying Go Be With Them — Mary Gaitskill
“Death makes human beings seem like very small containers that are packed so densely we can only be aware of a fraction of what’s inside us from moment to moment.”
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Lucia Berlin’s Roving, Rowdy Life Is Reflected in a Book of Her Stories (NYT 2015)
“A Manual for Cleaning Women” collects 43 stories by Ms. Berlin, who died a little over a decade ago and whose darkly wry work has remained unknown to many.
A Suspense Novelists Trail of Deceptions | The New Yorker
Dan Mallory, who writes under the name A. J. Finn, went to No. 1 with his début thriller, “The Woman in the Window.” His life contains even stranger twists.
Michael Leddy on his fourth reading of Ulysses
I first read Ulysses in 1979, finishing, not by plan, on June 16. I read the novel for a second time in 1980, and again in 1984. Coming bac...
Dirk De Wachter heeft kanker
Borderliners worstelen met een conflict: ‘Ik wil fantastisch zijn en lijken, maar ik voel me heel slecht.’
Dead At Noon
About the suicide of Gillian Bennett by Gillian Bennett
Bestaat u eigenlijk wel? | Eva Meijer | Trouw
Wat ik u nog wilde vragen: bestaat u eigenlijk wel? En hoe het zit met mensen om u heen, bestaan die?
i read the times (so you don't have to)
oh yeah ... a student ... with $26 million to invest.
The Urge to End It All (NYT 2008)
Is suicide the deadly result of a deep psychological condition — or a fleeting impulse brought on by opportunity?
The Curious Afterlife of a Brain Trauma Survivor. Sophia Papp emerged from an accident with her personality transformed.
This is fascinating.
Does my granddaughter have a personality disorder? | The Times
TL;DR
No. What she needs is a bit of operant conditioning.
Jane McAdam Freud obituary | The Times
archived 15 Aug 2022 03:34:39 UTC
MDMA is geen wondermedicijn, maar er kan iets fundamenteel veranderen
Psychiater Eric Vermetten behandelt oorlogsveteranen die kampen met een posttraumatische stressstoornis.
The best films of 2022 | Culture | The Sunday Times
archived 7 Aug 2022 08:00:45 UTC
Brown bear rescued after getting high on hallucinogenic ‘mad honey’ | The Times
Dozens of people a year in Turkey are admitted to hospital for 'mad honey' (deli bal) poisoning. Mad honey is a form of rhododendron honey that can have an hallucinogenic effect if consumed.
12 Aug 2022 18:17:12 UTC
Timothy Morton | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
Timothy Morton interviewed by Thiago Pinho interviews about experience and reality.
The Banshment
The Return won in 2003 vijf Gouden Leeuwen. Voor regisseur Andrei Zvjagintsev, die later Levithian zou maken, was de taak met een waardige opvolger te komen. Dat werd: The Banishment.
Documentaire over de ongrijpbare filmfamilie Rossellini door Roberto Rossellini's kleinzoon Alessandro
See it! on 2Doc.nl
Oh Frenkie…
archived 10 Aug 2022
Authentieke levenseindes
2Doc.nl zet de mooiste, ontroerendste, aangrijpendste, doodgewoonste en eerlijkste documentaires over het sterven op een rij.
Indiase high tech curry aan de Dommel - Mooncake
Op de High Tech Campus in Eindhoven eten Indiase expats hun heimwee weg bij Love my curry. Een verstopte Indiase lunchplek.
Why am I so tired and when is it time to see the doctor about it? A GP explains
A good doctor can help you work out when tiredness has crossed over into true fatigue.
and to find a good doctor?
‘A celebration of life’: the father who filmed his every moment – and his son who turned it into a movie
Richard Crawley spent decades recording himself and his family – and now his son James has turned the camera on him.
My adult children say I wasn’t a good mother | Tanya Byron | The Times
archived 8 Aug 2022
De Libanese real deal bij Baladi Manouche in Den Haag - Mooncake
Baladi Manouche
Torenstraat 95
2513 BP Den Haag
Epic fascinating interview with Shirley Hazzard from 2005 (The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 185)
The Sydney of my childhood had no concert hall. The echoing old Town Hall was used by the unadventurous orchestra, and the Conservatorium of Music by the ballet company. The theater was very limited, with constant repetitions of casts and plays, yet there was interest in the theater, and some circumscribed efforts by small groups. The visual arts were worst off. The public gallery at Sydney had some good paintings--some, for instance, by nineteenth-century British painters who had come "out" to what was then a colony--but even these were displayed in such gloom and institutional dreariness that one dreaded the Sunday afternoons on which one was taken there. The government, entirely male and philistine, was actively inimical to the arts; ridicule was the keynote. These things, in Australia, have greatly, if not entirely, changed.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX junk rains down on Australia | News | The Times
archived 3 Aug 2022 09:16:51 UTC
Arnon Grunberg on Werner Herzog's book about the Japanese soldier who spent decennia in the jungle believing the war was still going on. (in Dutch)
Mensen die in symptomen van de werkelijkheid een vijandelijke strategie zien, zijn van alle tijden.
Onoda maakt zich uiteindelijk eveneens weinig illusies over de keizer, of die nu een levende god is of niet. In de Filipijnse jungle zong hij al die jaren regelmatig een lied om de moed niet te verliezen: ‘Ik mag een zwerver of een bedelaar lijken,/ Maar stille maan, jij bent getuige van de glans van mijn ziel.’
Enrico Caruso, in wiens muziek hij de opdracht ontwaart een operahuis te bouwen in de jungle
Hij ziet in de symptomen van de werkelijkheid slechts een vijandelijke strategie die hem tot overgave moet verleiden.
Els Rozenbroek: ‘Het leven was geen lolletje, maar wat heb ik gelachen’
Amazing woman. What a story. Such unflinching and uncompromising honesty about the tragedy of her life ... and yet ...
The history of 'the ick'
with examples, real and imagined — plus, Philippa Perry on its psychological meaning